It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.

At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

A good dancer is an educated one, so dont abandon school.

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

She said, “Only the weak are afraid to appear so.

Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds.

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.

Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.